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Substance Painter - Showcase - M249 - Light Machine Gun

 on: April 13, 2020, 09:59:39 am 

I've been messing about in Blender, off and on, for the last year and finally decided it was time to take a relatively complex asset through the full pipe without resorting back to Max. The last personal weapon I modeled(tactical shotgun) I used to get the basics of Blender 2.80, but I ended up getting frustrated and went back to my comfort zone in Max. This time around I had more experience in Blender so it's 100% done there: modeling/unwrapping/baking/final renders - texturing done in Substance Painter. Target was around 100K on-card verts or triangles. I wanted close up folio shots so I went 4K maps with around 7 texture sheets and baked sharper(more realistic) bevels than the usual real-time asset requirements as this was more a portfolio piece and I wasn't concerned with mipping/rasterisation issues.
I also wanted to shift my workflow to baked shader bevels with no high polys involved, so there is only the final, in-game topology to worry about from the start.

Edges baked to bevel shader. All other normal details added in Painter.

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Substance - Meet MAT 2 Contest - Meet Mat 2 - Peking Opera Mat

 on: February 01, 2020, 12:21:09 pm 

Missed out on this last time round so I had to get in on this one. Could only spare 2 days on this so have to call it finished(besides the final renders)There are quite a few Chinese themed entries so best to put mine in........ Had a lot of fun with this. Never used displacements at all in SP so this was a great opportunity to experiment. I won't give up on Zbrush just yet though.

Best of luck to everyone. There are some terrific entries and the creativity on display is pretty incredible. Being forced to work under such restrictions has led to some truly wonderful characters.

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Substance Painter - Showcase - Warhammer Squig 'speed asset'(3-day challenge)

 on: May 18, 2016, 02:03:35 pm 

This was a project I did last weekend.

The goal: create an animated character from scratch, from a single concept image to in-game(UE4), in 3 days.

Day 1 - sculpting in Zbrush(high-poly creation)

Day 2 - retopo/UVs/map baking/texturing

Day 3 - rigging(CatRig)/skinning/animation/in-game

Some breakdowns to follow.....

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Substance Painter - Showcase - WXS-07 'Depopulator'

 on: May 03, 2016, 02:10:15 pm 

Hello community.... First post.

I began this project with 2 goals in mind: 1 -completely model a hard-surface character in Zbrush without falling back on the old 3dsMax crutch; 2 -use Substance Painter for every single material whilst texturing 47 different high-poly decimated parts(plus environment elements) with the final output being the Vray renderer utilising SP's Vray preset.

I believe I achieved both goals, and because Substance Painter made the texturing process extremely efficient, for me, the texturing was a success. In the past using older workflows texturing a character like this would have been a massive undertaking for a personal project -as I didn't want to just render passes and 'cheat' in PS by painting over the renders - I wanted to completely texture the entire character as if it were a production asset.

Original concept sketch by Jared Marantz.

I'm just going to post SP specific breakdown pics here but the full breakdown of my process can be found on the Polycount forums, if anybody is interested.
http://polycount.com/discussion/168591/wxs-07-depopulator/p1